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You're automatically signed up for Google+ when you create a Gmail account now, or at least I was last week. I was annoyed. I had to manually turn it off. You d
by PostOnce 14y ago
You're automatically signed up for Google+ when you create a Gmail account now, or at least I was last week. I was annoyed. I had to manually turn it off. You don't just slap my name on the public internet without asking me, Google.
I thought they'd learned a lesson about this kind of behavior from Buzz.
- Evbn 14y agoI am 98% certain they did learn from Buzz and did not create a public profile for you without you clicking something to add Plus to your Gmail account. Edit: just tried it. After creating a gmail accoun in mobile firefox, I had to click through an interstitial ad page punting the Plus app, and then find the hidden Cancel button on a G+ sign up form that was prefilled, and then I got to my new mailbox. So, it doesn't ever publish private data without consent, but the UX is definitively evil in pretending to hold your mail hostage.